- The document provides information about a general quiz competition including the format, rules, and sample questions. - Sample questions include identifying a company that changed the shape of their product, an actor's role in a popular film franchise, and the inspiration for the name of a famous chewing gum brand. - The document seeks to test participants' knowledge on a variety of topics through multiple choice and fill in the blank questions.

1. General Quiz
Hosted by Sachi Tengse and Utkarsh Sinha

2. Prelims

3. Format
• 25 questions, top 8 teams to qualify
• All questions are for 1 point each
• Starred questions will be used to break ties(2, 4, 6, 9, and 25)
• No negative marking, so please feel free to guess
• Mobile phones turned face down and away from you, please
• As it has always been said, QM is god.

4. • A certain decision taken in 2016 was met with instant criticism
with consumers describing it as a wrong move and saying that it
looked “stupid”.
• The entity in question said it had to decide between changing the
look or raising the price, and therefore opted for the former.
• While one legend claims that the original shape was modelled
after a certain natural formation, another says that the
inspiration was the red and cream-frilled line of dancers at the
Folies Bergères in Paris.
• What decision was this? 1

5. • Reshaping Toblerones

6. • Josh Herdman began his MMA career on 23 April 2016 in
Romford with a decision win over Janusz Walachowski.
• He said, "I chose MMA because I love the sport. It's raw,
exciting and unpredictable. I find it more interesting than
boxing although I appreciate the beauty and art in boxing. It
also made sense to move onto MMA because of my jujitsu
training. I would like a few amateur fights first to get me started
and where it goes from there, who knows?”
• However, the world knows Herdman for something else
altogether. In what context have we seen Herdman?
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8. • Speaking on his role in a recent blockbuster, X revealed that
his character Y is an "amalgamation of three or four other
friends" of the protagnist and is thus "fictionalized".
• However, US based Paresh Ghelani has been called the
'actual' Y, according to most media outlets.
• X and Y?
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9. Vicky Kaushal, played the role of Kamli in Sanju

10. • Mukesh X is a homeopathy practitioner and the CMD of X
Positive Health Clinic Pvt Ltd, a chain of homeopathy clinics
in India.
• He received his degree in homeopathy in 1972 from Smt.
Chandaben Mohanbhai Patel Homeopathic Medical College.
• You’ve probably heard of him, due to the large scale
spamming his company has done via flyers and local
newspapers targeting people's insecurities.
• Give me X. (picture on next slide)
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11. Here’s a hint:
Why is he so happy?

12. • X – Batra
• Dr. Batra’s

13. • The true origins of the company's name are rumored.
• However, according to most people, it is a term used in
common parlance for a well known city.
• Interestingly, the logo of the company is also modelled on
the city's world famous landmark.
• Give me the company and the landmark.
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15. • X is an insanely popular 'public engagement' app, owned by
Pocket Aces, the same company which manages theYoutube
channels Filtercopy and Dice Media.
• On how it manages to run its ‘operations’, its founders say
“We're currently running on the investment, with plans to
invest another 10 million dollars into the app. We have no
plans for monetization as of now”.
• Despite its current popularity, X was ridiculed as a ripoff of
another similar US based app when it launched.
• X? 6

16. • Loco

17. • X Field is a baseball park and is the home of the Chicago
Cubs.
• X is also the name of a company whose owner planned to
continue his father’s business of selling soap.
• He began offering baking powder as a premium.
• The owner also began packaging Y along with the baking
powder which eventually became more popular and X
reoriented the company to produce Y, which is the main
product of X. 7

18. • X – Wrigley’s
• Y – Chewing Gum

19. ID / Put funda.
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21. • With a tune resembling the second half of the Turkish folk
song "Kâtibim", it is a 1970s semi-biographical song about
X, a friend and advisor of a Royal and his family during the
early 20th century.
• The song sensationalizes X as a playboy, mystical healer,
and political manipulator.
• Also, he was called the paramour of the queen.
• X?
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22. • Rasputin

23. • In 2014 in cities across Kerala, the police were on a drive
against the use of marijuana amongst youngsters.
• The police were dutifully confiscating T-shirts, key chains,
bracelets and stickers with X’s pictures, and some of these
policemen actually believe that X was a gang leader of an
international drug mafia headquartered in _______.
• Give me X.
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25. • Invented by Harvey Adams, A British potter, X was
introduced in the 1860s.
• Looking like a regular ______, X had a special add-on, a
ledge attached to the inside.
• Mainly, it was the soldiers who used it, if that helps. The
lefties had to use a portable ledge though.
• Put funda. The blank is a very common word.
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26. • Mustache cups

27. • X started out as a hardware company whose core product
was the X image computer, a system primarily sold to
Government agencies and the medical community.
• As poor sales of X’s computers threatened to put the
company out of business, the _____ department began
producing commercials for outside companies.
• Early successes include campaigns for Tropicana, Listerine,
Life Savers and Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
• ID X.
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28. • Pixar

29. • Associated with the catchphrases “happy little trees” and
“beat the Devil out of it”, this late American TV show host
was born on 29th October 1942.
• He created three versions of each painting for each episode
of the show. The first, painted prior to taping, sat on an easel,
off-camera, and was used by him as a template to create the
second copy—the one viewers actually watched him paint.
• After taping the episode, he painted a third, more detailed
version for inclusion in his instructional books. Who?
13

30. • Bob Ross

31. What is the purpose of
such fixtures?
You’ll find them in a lot of
posh residencies.
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32. • Anti homeless spikes, used to prevent the homeless
from sleeping there

33. • Inglorious Basterds was directed by Quentin Tarantino, who
also earned an academy nomination for the same.
• However, a certain scene in the film was directed by another
director.
• Interestingly, both directors also acted in he movie.
• While Tarantino played the role of the first Nazi to be scalped
by the Basterds, the second director had a much more
significant role. Who? What role did he play?
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34. • Eli Roth, who played Staff Sergeant Donny “The Bear Jew”
Donowitz.
• The climax features a Nazi Propaganda film called “Stolz
der Nation”.
• This film-within-a-film was directed by Roth under the
pseudonym Alois von Eichberg.

35. The grey francolin is a species of francolin found in the plains
and drier parts of South Asia. They are found in open cultivated
lands as well as scrub forests. It is normally found foraging on
bare or low grass-covered ground in scrub and open country, and
is rarely found above an altitude of 500 m above sea level in
India, and 1200 m in Pakistan. The distribution is south of the
foothills of the Himalayas westwards to the Indus valley and
eastwards to Bengal. The sound that the grey francolin makes
resembles certain quails and partridges as well. This
onomatopoeic word gives the local name to the grey francolin as
well as the other aforementioned birds. What is the local name of
this bird, which you might have heard in a riddle?
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36. • Teetar - Turkey

37. Marwar Mathania is a village in Jodhpur district of Rajasthan, India. The
town is the site of the oldest Karni Mata temple, constructed by Amara
Charan in the fifteenth century. Native to Mathania, are the Mathania
chillies.
Known as the Lal Badshah of Rajasthan, this chilli is said to be the main
reason behind the stoic and spirited temperament of the Rajputs. It is the
main component of food items such as Laal Maans and Kairsangri. Though
the environment conditions are conducive for this chilli between March and
July, there was little or no manure or fertilizer available for better growth of
these chillies. Hence, what the locals decided, was to use something very
readily available to them, given the large number of secluded forts around
the area. This technique is still very much in use, to grow healthy Mathania
chillies. What do the locals use as fertilizer?
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38. • Bat faeces from nearby abandoned forts

39. • Hipponax, the 6th century BC comic poet, describes a
certain lover of fine food having “consumed his estate
dining lavishly and at leisure every day on tuna and garlic-
honey cheese paté like a Lampsacene ______
• The blank generally designates some incapacity for, or
abstention from procreation.
• It was derived from the Greek word for bed, and roughly
translates to a bedroom guard.
• Later modifications and combinations of the word; one of
which involves intermixing with Latin word ‘ekhein’
meaning ‘to hold’; gives the word its present day form.
• FITB.
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40. • Eunuch

41. • Born in a lineage of many statesmen, X is the great grand
daughter of former prime minister of Hyderabad, grand niece
of a former governor of Assam, and grand daughter of J
Rameshwar Rao from her mother’s side.
• Calling herself more a dancer than an actress, she has gained
acclaim for many of her films, but not much mainstream
success. She is trained in Bharatnatyam as well as classical
vocals, but started acting at a pretty young age.
• She did play small parts in many films before, but she was
noticed by the masses in an April 2011 advertisement.
• Identify her as well as the advertisement that gave her instant
fame. 19

42. • Aditi Rao Hydari
• Airtel 3G

43. • What is this a
flowchart for?
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45. Where have you heard a part of this song before?
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46. • How I Met Your Mother Theme Song